butt
Pronunciation: /bʌt/
The English word “butt” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- The buttocks or anus (used as a minced oath in idiomatic expressions; less objectionable than arse/ass).
- The whole buttocks and pelvic region that includes one's private parts.
- Body; self.
- The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.
- A used cigarette.
- A piece of land left unplowed at the end of a field.
- Hassock.
- A crust end-piece of a loaf of bread.
- The end of a firearm opposite to that from which a bullet is fired.
- The plastic or rubber cap used to cover the open end of a lacrosse stick's shaft in order to reduce injury.
- The portion of a half-coupling fastened to the end of a hose.
- The end of a connecting rod or other like piece, to which the boxing is attached by the strap, cotter, and gib.
- A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scarfing or chamfering.
- A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc., so named because it is attached to the inside edge of the door and butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.
- The joint where two planks in a strake meet.
- The blunt back part of an axehead or large blade. Also called the poll.
- The direction from which the wind blows.
- A limit; a bound; a goal; the extreme bound; the end.
- A mark to be shot at; a target.
- A person at whom ridicule, jest, or contempt is directed.
Etymology
From Middle English but, butte (“goal, mark, butt of land”), from Old English byt, bytt (“small piece of land”) and *butt (attested in diminutive Old English buttuc (“end, small piece of land”) > English buttock), from Proto-West Germanic *butt, from Proto-Germanic *buttaz (“end, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰnós (“bottom”), later thematic variant of Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰmḗn ~…
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